On Ukraine, U.S. and Russia Wage Signaling War to Avert Actual War (Published...
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/15/world/europe/us-russia-ukraine-war.html
Each side is trying to convince the other that the price of conflict is too high. It is a complex game played with deliberate ambiguity, raising the risk of lethal miscalculation.
